Thursday, December 31, 2009

One More Christian?

In fifteen year of living in Germany...today's news was the one bit that I wasn't expecting. Nina Hagen....announcing that she's become a Christian and writing a book on acceptance of Jesus.

The 54-year old rocker....had this long trail....an atheist....drugs....and various weird Indian religions. So now....she says she's permanently converted.

I'm mostly in shock. She's the last person on Earth that I'd expect on some Christian conversion. I would be curious who stood in her path and laid some wisdom at her feet. This would be the interest part to know.

Of course, like every idiot big-wig who finds some Christian path.....she has to write a book to explain things. So they say she's publishing a book in March.

Stranger things have occurred, but in my fifteen years of living Germany....this is one the top three.

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This essay log is written by an American who offers wit and sarcasm on Germany, Germans, Germanology, German political figures, German TV, German beer, German food, German humor (or lack of), German habits, German weirdness, German news, German autos, German brilliance, German stupidity, German customs, German Nazis, German history, and German stubbornness.

I was one of those Americans who did over twenty years of military time....married a German....and eventually returned as a retiree.

I'm one of the few who stood under the German umbrella.....paid German taxes for some years.....German social security.....and felt the various pains like Germans.

So, this is my all-purpose commentary essay, designed for Americans mostly (and those Germans who accidentally discover it). I tend to put German culture into the spotlight of sarcasm, wit and humor. I'm simply pointing out the richness and craziness of life in Germany, which even some Germans can't understand.

The amusing thing is that I'm merely repeating the exercise that Mark Twain performed in 1880, when he published "A Tramp Abroad". Various comments were dished out on the Germans....which apparently did not trigger any wars, chaos, climate change, or ill feelings.